Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

Just as I have my Dark Age Hovel where I can, mostly undeterred, spout about things like double digit percentages of corporate executives being psychopaths, percentages second only to maximum security prisons.

Turns out that's pretty accurate, at least according to a leading business magazine...

EDITORS' PICK
The Psychopathic CEO
Jack McCullough, Senior Contributor
Dec 9, 2019, 06:00am EST

“He is a charismatic leader who inspires people to follow him. A strategic thinker who can master the details. A tireless worker with incredible focus and problem-solving skills. He is well-liked by his employees but is also able to make and execute unpopular decisions. Above all, he is an exceptional communicator who can convey a vision to any audience, from Wall Street to the most junior employee.”

The quote above could describe an ideal CEO. But it’s actually a portrait of a corporate psychopath, provided by a law enforcement official who declined to be identified because they weren’t authorized to publicly comment. People with psychopathy crave power and dominant positions, experts say. But they are also chameleons, able to disguise their ruthlessness and antisocial behavior under the veneer of charm and eloquence. In the most extreme, clinical, cases those traits have allowed serial killers to elude capture.

But when it comes to the corporate world, non-violent, corporate psychopaths are not running from the law, but instead, rushing to the executive suite. One route to grabbing power for the highly intelligent psychopath is to climb the corporate ladder. There is a real chance that at some point a chief financial officer will be confronted with a psychopathic boss. Roughly 4% to as high as 12% of CEOs exhibit psychopathic traits, according to some expert estimates, many times more than the 1% rate found in the general population and more in line with the 15% rate found in prisons.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccull ... ad2574791e

...and a leading business news channel.

WORK
1 in 5 business leaders may have psychopathic tendencies—here’s why, according to a psychology professor
Published Mon, Apr 8 2019, 12:20 PM EDT, Updated Tue, Apr 9 2019, 10:51 AM EDT

“I am a thrill seeker.”

“I like to get revenge on authorities.”

“I never feel guilty.”

“People who mess with me always regret it.”

If you think any of the statements above describe you, then you most likely have a tendency to display antisocial, callous and reckless behaviors. According a study dating back to 2010, there were at least three times as many psychopaths in executive or CEO roles than in the overall population. But more recent data found it’s now a much higher figure: 20 percent.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/the-sci ... thing.html

Project Veritas released an interview with a Pfizer executive where they tricked him in to bragging about gain of function research they are doing and the fact that they are using directed evolution to create strains of covid that they then can have vaccines ready for, therefore milking the "cash cow" they have had a hand in creating. I'm sure everyone is aware of this who has been following the topic and there is nothing new in my post thus far. Zero Hedge reported today that youtube removed one of the afore-mentioned videos and that Pfizer issued a response. This is the only video I've seen and it is apparently a summary which is still up on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLE_3JElSNs

All that I want to comment on is contained in this video. In my opinion, Project Veritas did a masterful job in demonstrating two things in this video:

1. The telltale signs that corporate psychopaths exhibit when describing how they injure and kill for profit. I've seen this several times and have described it three times in this forum that I can recall. What you will see when these psychopaths describe the processes by which they injure and kill is they will become very excited and animated, as if they are going into some kind of trance or drug induced high. As they describe how what they are doing is injuring and killing without admitting it directly, it will also be stated in some way that it is very profitable to do so. Finally, they will let out a hearty laugh. This can be seen starting at 0:39 of the video https://youtu.be/BLE_3JElSNs?t=39 where he says, "Because some of the times there are mutations that pop up that we are not prepared for like the delta and omnicron and things like that so who knows? I mean, either way it's going to be cash cow. Covid will probably be a cash cow for us for awhile going forward." Followed by a hearty laugh.

2. What it takes to change the behavior of a corporate psychopath, or any psychopath. I've stated before in this forum that there is only one thing that will change the behavior of a psychopath. Trying to explain to them that what they are doing is morally wrong will not. The one and only thing that will change the behavior of a psychopath is showing the psychopath the equivalent of, "If you don't stop doing this to me (or others), I will smash your fucking head in with a hammer." That is the only thing that will get the attention of a psychopath and it's the only thing a psychopath understands. At the end of the video, watch how the psychopath's behavior changes when Project Veritas shows him the instruments of torture that they have used.

My guess is the percentage who display the extreme psychopathic characteristics of the Pfizer goon number somewhere around 3 or 4% whereas your everyday run-of-the-mill slightly psychopathic corporate backstabbers run in the low double digit range, maybe around 15%.

One in the latter category that I had the misfortune of working with in the 1980s was at the mailboxes one day. He had just been promoted to maintenance manager and had his usual fake smile plastered on his face. I looked at him and said, "Hey Dean, maintaining that friendly facade?"

[aeden]

Going on day three no power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjtiwUhBE8s
Log three preparations since 2019. Few see and less understand.
The Fig tree and Two Olive Trees are under Heavens Mandate.
The bankruptcy of Morals is there for all to see.

Napier "a mathematician without equal."
Three hundred years later, in 1914, E. W. Hobson called logarithms "one of the very greatest scientific discoveries that the world has seen."

[Higgenbotham]

Central Banks
Feds Jefferson: Wage growth is running too high to be consistent with 2% inflation
Greg Michalowski
Friday, 24/02/2023 | 09:20 GMT-6

https://www.forexlive.com/

Austin city leaders say they are kicking off a job recruitment campaign aimed at trying to fill more than 2,500 vacancies in a number of departments across the city.

The hiring campaign, starting Feb. 1, is the largest the city has undertaken and will target residents through print, digital, social media, radio, billboards and bus advertisements. The city expects to spend about $33,000 a month, with that spending already accounted for in the fiscal 2023 budget, City Manager Spencer Cronk said.

“While we’ve made progress in filling positions in recent months, we know there’s more work to do,” Cronk said. “With departments intensifying their efforts to fill vacancies and our new citywide hiring campaign ready to launch, we’ll continue to do everything we can to recruit and retain talented people to deliver the services our community expects.”

Here's what we know about the city's recruitment campaign:

Where does the city have openings?

There are vacancies across numerous city departments, including its public safety operations, Austin Energy and Austin Water, as well as staffing shortages for lifeguards and library staff.

The city is operating with a 16.3% job vacancy rate. The vacancy rate for public safety employees is 13.2%, according to city officials.

The city of Austin employs about 16,000 people, Cronk said.

Cronk said this is a trend that is being felt nationally, and it has been hard to address in a single way. But the city is working to get that rate down to about 10%, which is the norm that was seen before the pandemic hit in 2020.

“Every department has their own recruiting strategies,” he said. “But this is a cohesive way to expand our universe of ways to explore jobs in the city.”

How does the city plan to proceed?

Cronk said the city has prioritized recruitment and retention efforts, including increases in pay. In August, the City Council greenlighted an across-the-board 4% increase for city staff – the largest increase in more than two decades – along with a 33% increase in the minimum wage for city employees, raising that to $20 for most workers.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/20 ... 856494007/

This is a disaster when you really stop to think about it.

[Higgenbotham]

One in the latter category that I had the misfortune of working with in the 1980s was at the mailboxes one day. He had just been promoted to maintenance manager and had his usual fake smile plastered on his face. I looked at him and said, "Hey Dean, maintaining that friendly facade?"

He seemed to understand the nuances and laughed.

What I was getting at was there are 3 interpretations to the question:

1. Maintaining his own fake friendly image.
2. Maintaining the company's fake friendly image as its ostensibly loyal representative.
3. Maintaining the building and grounds for the company in his new role, which he had no idea how to do, but was trying hard to pretend that he did.

He had a business degree and no ability to manage maintenance. I think the psychology of these types is they think every other colleague around them wants to climb the ladder as badly as they do. Once they get up a rung, they get nervous wondering if they can really fake their way through the job.

Unrelated to this type, there was another guy in there who was a pretty good guy. He used to throw fake fits of rage which people took seriously. He was one of the top 6 people in the facility. One day he banged his fist on his desk and yelled something like, "I am tired of these guys fucking this shit up!!!" I looked at him and said in a calm voice, "Hey, Nikita," and he burst out laughing and said something like, "You get it."

[aeden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=deskt ... -y0&t=412s Deeper issue for the locals.
Mushrooms are only allowed grow when allowed sunlight planted the fertile plain of effective change H.
Demming was correct and stated after a pause collecting Himself was to prevent the suicide of American Business.
This was explained to them after the bond collapse also then.
You have woke vegetables to explain Consumer preferences and beach bums explaining reality as workers check out and inputs calculation
that are absurd to barrels per unit without input materials even factored in. Total shit show of avarice to watts per caloric inputs for
a class of people with a bent of mind rather past demented.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ify%20wall The foad flyovers maybe hit critical mass and had enough.
They ignored the hedonics before so they learn the hard woke way. Saturday we are meeting with likeminded who also had enough of the red diaper cult. The highly skilled already checked out in medical and no they do not and will not listen into the central mental model into collapse.
As you alluded to the smart kids already know the outcome and are networking accounts to prepare into the actual collapse.
The tech is private supply solutions.
Ai implementation models already implemented to outputs already done as traction gains implemented.
Many are years behind now.

Anyways.
Chemical engineer Ronald Lucy explains how government officials are lying when they refer to the fire set to the derailed cars in East Palestine as being a “controlled burn”. RealNewsNotBS.com reported on the ground in Ohio and spoke with an independent expert conducting his own tests of the water, soil, and air in East Palestine.
Lucy says he’s been used as an expert witness and exposure expert in many large-scale class action lawsuits nationwide and he says the narrative about the “controlled burn” is a lie.

Example: https://www.heritage-enviro.com/heritag ... -services/

The sheep got dosed deceived demsheviked.

[Higgenbotham]

Unrelated to this type, there was another guy in there who was a pretty good guy. He used to throw fake fits of rage which people took seriously. He was one of the top 6 people in the facility. One day he banged his fist on his desk and yelled something like, "I am tired of these guys fucking this shit up!!!" I looked at him and said in a calm voice, "Hey, Nikita," and he burst out laughing and said something like, "You get it."

Description of incident

On 12 October 1960, head of the Filipino delegation Lorenzo Sumulong referred to "the peoples of Eastern Europe and elsewhere which have been deprived of the free exercise of their civil and political rights and which have been swallowed up, so to speak, by the Soviet Union".[12] Upon hearing this, Khrushchev quickly came to the rostrum, being recognized on a point of order. There he demonstratively, in a theatrical manner, brushed Sumulong aside, with an upward motion of his right arm—without physically touching him—and began a lengthy denunciation of Sumulong, branding him (among other things) as "a jerk, a stooge, and a lackey", and a "toady of American imperialism"[13] and demanded Assembly President Frederick Boland (Ireland) call Sumulong to order. Boland did caution Sumulong to "avoid wandering out into an argument which is certain to provoke further interventions", but permitted him to continue speaking and sent Khrushchev back to his seat.[citation needed]

According to some sources, Khrushchev pounded his fists on his desk in protest as Sumulong continued to speak, and at one point picked up his shoe and banged the desk with it.[14] Some other sources report a different order of events: Khrushchev first banged the shoe then went to the rostrum to protest.[15] Sumulong's speech was again interrupted. Another point of order was raised by the highly agitated Romanian Foreign Vice-minister Eduard Mezincescu, a member of the Eastern Bloc. Mezincescu gave his own angry denunciation of Sumulong and then turned his anger on Boland, his provoking, insulting, and ignoring of the Assembly President leading to his microphone being eventually shut off. This prompted a chorus of shouts and jeers from the Eastern Bloc delegations. The chaotic scene finally ended when Boland, crimson-faced with frustration, abruptly declared the meeting adjourned and slammed his gavel down so hard he broke it, sending the head flying. On observing the shoe-banging, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is said to have quipped "May we have a translation of that please?"[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-banging_incident

[aeden]

rule 16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves
rule 17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective
rule 18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
rule 19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

we are here https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/0 ... o-zombies/

as they had been then as the wall period https://www.drugs.com/illicit/krokodil.html Tue May 13, 2014 9:11 am
viewtopic.php?p=24047#p24047

They will never learn as it is not capable since it exists for one purpose only.

https://cdn.mises.org/Bureaucracy_3.pdf

As we seen today, they forward the rise of social deviants in the march of the plan.
Klingberg cycle of political deviants runs its course. Terminal interest rate has another connotation in time also.

When we said in 1976 we are them it is now here, and they have no answer to the events in this dark age
as GD predicted in this Winter effect which is just getting traction.

You are on target correct H.

[Higgenbotham]

Admittedly, my memory may be a bit faulty on this one, but it's close.

In 1984, I bought a house. All of the paperwork was 4 pages.

If I were to buy a house today, the paperwork would probably be at least 100 pages.

Lawyers and bureaucrats skimming off the backs of hard working people.

[John]

One in the latter category that I had the misfortune of working with in the 1980s was at the mailboxes one day. He had just been promoted to maintenance manager and had his usual fake smile plastered on his face. I looked at him and said, "Hey Dean, maintaining that friendly facade?"

He seemed to understand the nuances and laughed.

What I was getting at was there are 3 interpretations to the question:

1. Maintaining his own fake friendly image.
2. Maintaining the company's fake friendly image as its ostensibly loyal representative.
3. Maintaining the building and grounds for the company in his new role, which he had no idea how to do, but was trying hard to pretend that he did.

He had a business degree and no ability to manage maintenance. I think the psychology of these types is they think every other colleague around them wants to climb the ladder as badly as they do. Once they get up a rung, they get nervous wondering if they can really fake their way through the job.

Unrelated to this type, there was another guy in there who was a pretty good guy. He used to throw fake fits of rage which people took seriously. He was one of the top 6 people in the facility. One day he banged his fist on his desk and yelled something like, "I am tired of these guys fucking this shit up!!!" I looked at him and said in a calm voice, "Hey, Nikita," and he burst out laughing and said something like, "You get it."

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

The Company Way



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKC8iPeIvEA

[Higgenbotham]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ify%20wall The foad flyovers maybe hit critical mass and had enough.

Headline and bullet points from the article:

Millions of US Workers Are Still Missing After The Pandemic. Where Did They Go?

Economists can’t agree where America’s missing workers went
Even the size of the US labor shortage is now in question

I think the Federal Reserve and their cronies thought if they squeezed the middle class some more with inflation above 2% that they would work more hours and come out of hibernation looking for jobs. But I think the prices got too high for the conventional economy to support that in a lot of cases. If Target has an additional hundreds of millions of missing inventory due to organized crime and that is extrapolated across all of Big Box, probably we have tens of thousands of "jobs" moving into the underground economy just in the retail organized crime theft category of new employment opportunities to keep pace with inflation.

I had said Wall Street would whistle past the graveyard on this one.

Of course, that's not the only reason for dwindling conventional labor, but it is probably substantial and will continue to be overlooked.

Missing inventory has reduced Target's gross margin by more than $400 million in 2022 compared with last year, and Target expects those profit losses to grow to $600 million by the end of the fiscal year, Target CFO Michael Fiddelke said in November during a company earnings call.

Target predominantly blamed the inventory shrink on organized crime.

"Along with other retailers, we've seen a significant increase in theft and organized retail crime across our business," Target CEO Brian Cornell said during the earnings call.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compani ... 8d70578f93

If the sixty years seemed full of brilliance and adventure to a few at the top, to most they were a succession of wayward dangers; of the three galloping evils, pillage, plague, and taxes; of fierce and tragic conflicts, bizarre fates, capricious money, sorcery, betrayals, insurrections, murder, madness, and the downfall of princes; of dwindling labor for the fields, of cleared land reverting to waste; and always the recurring black shadow of pestilence carrying its message of guilt and sin and the hostility of God.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
1978

The insurrections are still coming. "January 6" wasn't it by a long shot. You'll know it when you see it. Neither has the real pandemic. We're just getting warmed up.